NYT Corrects Its Ed Herman Obit
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NYT’s Obit for Ed Herman Requires a Correction
Ask the New York Times to correct the claim that Herman and Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent was criticized for “having soft-pedaled evidence of genocide” that hadn’t happened yet.
USA Today Ignores Climate Change as Factor in Alaskan Drilling
Please tell USA Today to mention climate change prominently when writing about energy issues.
ACTION ALERT: NewsHour Treats Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar as Matter of Opinion
Please ask the PBS NewsHour to return to the Rohingya story with a report that treats the question of ethnic cleansing as more than a matter of opinion.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Claims US Opposed Honduran Coup It Actually Supported
Please contact the New York Times and ask it to correct the false claim that the United States tried to restore the democratically elected president of Honduras.
Action Alert: With Sleazy Innuendo, NYT Lays Virginia Attack at Bernie Sanders’ Feet
The New York Times started with a false premise and patched together a dodgy piece of innuendo and guilt-by-association in order to place the blame for a shooting in Virginia on “the most ardent supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders.”
Action Alert: Asking Questions of Government Figures Is Not a Crime
Please ask West Virginia to respect the First Amendment and drop all charges against reporter Dan Heyman.
Action Alert: NYT Misleads on Children’s Pre-Existing Conditions
The New York Times, in its obsession with reporting that the truth is somewhere in the middle no matter what the facts say, is now downplaying the risk to sick children posed by elimination of the Affordable Care Act.
ACTION ALERT: WaPo’s Post Live Series Is a Love Letter to Corporate Conflicts of Interest
Please contact the Washington Post and urge it to stop allowing corporations to sponsor events when they have a direct financial interest in the subject.
ACTION ALERT: Tell CNN to Stop Using Trump Propaganda Term ‘Terror-Prone Countries’
Please contact CNN and tell the network to stop adopting the Trump administration’s “terror-prone” label as its own description of the countries targeted by Trump’s immigration order.
Action Alert: NYT Turns to Oil Consultant to Minimize Trump’s Climate Damage
The New York Times minimizes Keystone’s impact on the climate, in the service of false balance and downplaying the impact of Trump’s anti-environmental moves.
NPR Retracts False Claim About Terror and Politics, But Doesn’t Tell Listeners the Truth
If it was worth NPR’s airtime to give a false impression of the connection between terrorism and electoral politics, isn’t it worth airtime to tell people what the actual historical record says?
Action Alert: AP’s Premature Call for Clinton Does Disservice to Democracy
The Associated Press (6/6/16) has unilaterally declared Hillary Clinton to be “the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president,” based on the news agency’s own polling of unelected superdelegates.
FAIR Activists Get Two Responses From NPR on Fossil-Fuel Funding Controversy
FAIR.org readers got a response from NPR ombud Elizabeth Jensen and a do-over from NPR factchecker Peter Overby —but NPR’s coverage still leaves a lot to be desired in terms of forthrightly addressing the issue of fossil-fuel funding in the Democratic presidential race.
ACTION ALERT: Stop Mega-Cable Merger to Avoid a Second Comcast
Americans who hate Comcast largely for reasons related to its very bigness are now facing the possibility of, essentially, another Comcast–as the result of a possible merger between Time Warner, Charter Communications and Bright House Networks.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Claims Clinton ‘Emerging as Unrivaled Leader’ in Democratic Race
Hillary Clinton, the “unrivaled leader,” leads her closest rival, Bernie Sanders, by 7 percentage points in an average of recent polls in the first caucus state, Iowa. In the first primary state, New Hampshire, she trails Sanders by 2 points;
ACTION ALERT: Why Do Conservatives Get to Question Candidates—but Not Progressives?
One of three panelists CNN selected for the Republican debate last month was conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. But at the upcoming Democratic debate, CNN is not planning to include a single progressive advocate among its panel of four questioners.
Action Alert: New York Post Gets Ethel Rosenberg History Wrong
The New York Post reported that ” Ethel Rosenberg…was executed with her husband for treason.” That’s just wrong, and deserves a correction.
Action Alert: NYT Gives a False Pass to US on Cluster Bomb Sales
The New York Times describes the United States as one of the countries that hasn’t signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions “but have abided by its provisions.” This is just wrong, as the United States continues to make and sell cluster bombs.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Says ‘Pro-Israel Community’ Opposes Iran Deal—Ignoring Actual Opinions
The New York Times’ description of a “pro-Israel community intensely opposed to the [Iran] deal” is contradicted by polls of Jewish- American opinion.
